tree celandine

1. 1.

   small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers

   SynonymsbocconiaBocconia frutescens

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofgenus Bocconia

Questions about tree celandine

What does tree celandine mean?

tree celandine means "small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers".

What is another word for tree celandine?

Close synonyms include bocconia, Bocconia frutescens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tree celandine a common word?

tree celandine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.